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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

richardarunachala.wordpress.com

Living in the Embrace of Arunachala | Our expat life in India and Mexico

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardarunachala.wordpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richardarunachala.wordpress.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardarunachala.wordpress.com

75 ms

richardarunachala.wordpress.com

855 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

89 ms

124 ms

style.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 306 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Richardarunachala.wordpress.com, 55% (168 requests) were made to Polldaddy.com and 16% (48 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Polldaddy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 763.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

405.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Richardarunachala.wordpress.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 487.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 396.4 kB

  • Original 487.1 kB
  • After minification 475.9 kB
  • After compression 90.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 396.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 126.8 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Richard Arunachala Wordpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 179.3 kB
  • After minification 178.6 kB
  • After compression 127.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 51.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 310.0 kB

  • Original 376.4 kB
  • After minification 376.2 kB
  • After compression 66.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Richardarunachala.wordpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 310.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 242 (81%)

Requests Now

299

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 299 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richard Arunachala Wordpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 184 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

richardarunachala.wordpress.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

richardarunachala.wordpress.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

richardarunachala.wordpress.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Richardarunachala.wordpress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Richardarunachala.wordpress.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Richard Arunachala Wordpress. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: